Search Requests

SEARCH REQUESTS

At game start, the map is completely unexplored and covered by a "fog of war" obscuring its features. New characters will be randomly dropped onto the island's shores; from there, to uncover tiles on the map and figure out more about where they are, search requests are required to document movement, attempt to uncover hidden materials and passages, discover or confront dangers, find old ruins and create new settlements, and potentially, solve puzzles related to the mystery of the island itself.

RULES AND GUIDELINES

Search requests are a required mechanic of this game. A search request for the current AC cycle must be submitted in order to pass AC without a strike.
Mistakes in search requests will never be penalized. Don't be afraid to eyeball a distance or make an approximate guess; if the math doesn't quite match up, or the path doesn't exist, I will offer alternate destinations and work with you in order to decide how the search request will resolve.
Search requests will rarely be immediately fatal. Unless your character is doing something intentionally reckless, I will do my best to offer paths of escape for any sudden dangers that arise.
You can be as precise or as vague as you want. If you want to exactly plot out the squares your character will travel through and search every IC day, that is totally fine. It's also fine to simply report that your character is staying in one place all month, or to give a starting point and a desired destination, with a general request to search a wide area. Just note that, the more vague you are in your request, the more I will extrapolate to fill in the blanks.
Retroactive/backdated search requests are allowed. They just can't be used for the current month's AC if they fall outside of the current month's AC period, or overwrite a previously submitted search request. Forward-dated search requests are also allowed as long as they fall within the same IC day that the request was posted (for example, if you post a search request on IC Day 30 morning, you can make that search request last for the entirety of IC day 30, not just the morning of).
Thoroughly searching a square, rather than just traveling through it, halves movement through that square. So if you choose to search every square along a path, you'll only travel half as far as someone moving with purpose to a destination. Remember that simply traveling through a square will still fully reveal it.
IC Days are split into three 8-hour increments. Each of these corresponds to one OOC day. Morning is from 4AM -> 11:59AM, Day is from 12PM -> 7:59PM, and Night is 8PM -> 3:59AM.
Several examples of search requests are provided below to help illustrate how they work. If you still have questions, please ask them in the FAQ (or in your search request!).

MAP REFERENCE/TRAVEL CONDITIONS

TRAVEL CONDITIONS | IC DAYS 15 → 17

MORNING

DAY

NIGHT

BEACH

OCEAN*

JUNGLE

FOOTHILLS

MOUNTAINS

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
3 square visibility

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
5 square visibility

4 squares/hour
(32 total)
1 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
5 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
1 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
0 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
2 square visibility

2 squares/hour
(16 total)
3 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
1 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
5 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
7 square visibility

1 square/hour
(8 total)
3 square visibility

*The average human can only tread water for three hours

LEGEND

- Preexisting Structure

- Ocean

- Reef

- Deep Water

- River

- Natural Landmark

- Beach

- Jungle

- Mangroves

- Character-Made Landmark

- Foothills

- Mountain

Click on any of the map tiles for details.

III

VII

VIII

XII

XIII

XIV

XVI

SUBMISSIONS

# | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
All new characters will be given a toplevel to this post. To submit a search request, fill out the below form and copy/paste it as a response to your toplevel.

IC DATES: The IC dates the search request covers (I would also recommend putting this in the subject line to make it easier to keyword search later). You can use whole days, partial days, or a combination of either. To verify what IC days line up with real-world days and events, consult the Calendar.

STARTING SQUARE: The square your character is starting their search request on, format TILE.COLUMN.ROW. This should line up with your previous search request, or your starting location if newly arrived/revived.

ENDING SQUARE: The square your character is ending their search request on. If you're not sure where they'll end up (the area is unexplored/your character has a vague idea of where they want to go/you're not sure on the math/etc.), you can give a more rough answer here. Something like "they want to make it to Tile II," or "as close to II.AA.3 as possible" are perfectly valid answers.

DETAILS: The meat of your request. This is where you describe:

The path your character is taking,
The squares you want them to search,
Any special actions your character is taking during this period of time (or inaction), and
Any other special notes or questions you might have about this request.

Again, you can provide as much or as little information as you want; saying that your character is simply moving from point A to point B without searching anything is 100% acceptable.

NAVIGATION

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Morning 006
Starting Square: III.J.25
Ending Square: III.J.25
Duration: 2 hours
General Search Results:

four bundles of sugarcane

There doesn't appear to be a way to easily disconnect the solar panels; they're secured firmly to the roof, wires apparently hidden within the concrete. She does find a small but powerful speaker nestled at the base of the central set of solar panels, though, attached directly to the roof. It looks like it might be plugged into something?

Steph has 1 hour remaining until Day 006.

IC DATES: Day 008
STARTING SQUARE: III.BB.27
ENDING SQUARE: As reasonably close to III.J.25 as he can get
DETAILS:

Keeping: chunk of glass, handcuffs, sample size liquor bottle
Leaving: waist pack

He'll turn the waist pack inside out and look inside, just to make sure there's not anything inside of it that he could use. If there's nothing inside, he'll just toss it back down where he found it and discard it there.

Since there's still nothing here, he'll spend the next six hours continuing to move towards III.J.25. Depending on how close he gets, he will keep his distance from Rust and Steph for now, instead of hanging back and observing them, using whatever cover is nearby if he can find any. The less cover there is, the further away he'll stay from them, but he'll stay out of grabbing/touching range no matter what. He'll use the little sample size liquor bottle thing to fill up with rain water and drink from, whenever there's an afternoon shower! If he's able to, he'll do that multiple times since it's a small container.

Just like before, he'll thoroughly search each square he moves through. He'll particularly be looking for food, herbs, anything that can be used as a weapon, and any signs of life (human or animal). He'll keep his eyes out for anything unusual or out of place ofc, as always!

He will be periodically stopping to wipe away his own tracks to make himself harder to track or follow.

Also - looks like there's some kind of structure very nearby where he is currently! He won't let it distract him from his goal of getting to III.J.25, but what info can get just from looking at it or being near it? What does it look like? Sound like?

Edited 2023-06-23 20:00 (UTC)

Morning 006 -> Night 009
Starting Square: III.J.25
Ending Square: III.J.25
Duration: 96 hours
General Search Results:

a leather glove, right
broken flash drive
a medium-sized green fruit with a firm exterior, like a lime
spare circuit board, intact
a keyboard key - "Q"
four cacao pods
flexible metal cable
a squirrel's tail
six large eggs - rose pink
four bullets, .45
a termite nest
a handful of small red berries attached to a bush with fuzzy blue leaves
a handful of teeth - herbivore, or molars, all in one place
five willow shoots
a tote bag - dark blue, empty, has one large pocket on the side
a dead fish - large, indeterminant species, pretty old
a full bottle of spiced rum
a damaged tin of sardines - punctured, but still has food in it
four stick-on bandages, small
a soft ankle brace
a large, flat seashell
a metal switch, like you might find on an electronic switchboard
empty metal container - white with a red cross on the top cover
a young albatross struggling in the trees

While exploring the several kilometers immediately surrounding the building, Rust gets a decent sense of the lay of the land. The concrete structure sits just within the thicker jungle past the edge of the northern island coastline, to the point where he's easily able to make it to the thinner forest by the beach and make it back within the day. There's also a small river to the west, easily within a day's travel.

Rust doesn't find any game trails, unfortunately, but he's able to scavenge enough spare vines and twigs to make some simple snares. Perhaps because of his placement, though - or just a lack of small animals to catch in the immediate area - only one of them ends up producing a rodent-like creature with a bushy tail, similar to a squirrel but with a long, predator's snout. It's dead by the time Rust finds it.

The powered-down drones don't seem to have any effect on any doors anymore. Whether this is because of the drones being powered down or the doors themselves not getting power is debatable. Depositing a drone onto a plinth also doesn't seem to do anything. Evil Piñata, already badly damaged, doesn't come apart easily with only a knife, so Rust does end up more or less destroying it. He manages to at least salvage three handfuls of assorted electronics and three handfuls of scrap metal from the affair.

The desk and computer are very solidly attached to each other and the floor. The computer has literally been built into the table, and the table is bolted to the concrete floor, which could theoretically be levered out of place. Rust would likely need Steph's help plus a very sturdy levering device to dislodge one of the legs. Wiping down the desk makes the desk marginally cleaner, but doesn't reveal any hidden writing or markings.

Notably, Steph has found a speaker on the roof. Would Rust still try to clamber his way up there for his own look?

The drones are about 4 feet square and quite cumbersome to carry, although mostly because of their size rather than their weight. Two people or one person with a creative backpack solution could carry one without a lot of difficulty.

Popping off the cover to the keycard reader reveals internals similar to the drone: An odd combination of modern tech plus bizarre, unfamiliar electronic components, all squished into a this little panel on the wall.

Taking the comb and sulfur!

And he'll be sleeping in the old campsite for the rest of the night.

IC DATES: Morning 009
STARTING SQUARE: VI.H.29
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS:

He'll sleep one extra hour into the morning, then spend a couple hours looking around the stream for breakfast - he'll check if there are any fish in the river; if not, he'll look for fruit, vegetables, or any other huntable looking animals.

Adding that he'll be moving gradually downriver while also looking for a reasonable place to cross it.

Edited 2023-06-25 13:43 (UTC)

The rib is roughly human-sized, although the exact species is indeterminant.

Day 009 -> Night 009
Starting Square: VI.FF.20
Ending Square: VI.FF.20
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

makeshift fish trap, still intact
three cucumbers
a metal fork
flint arrowhead

The group sets up a camp in square VI.FF.20, building a semi-stable structure into some rougher patches in the nearby mountain faces.

Morning 010 -> Night 010
Starting Square: VI.FF.20
Ending Square: VI.FF.20
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

spray bottle head, adjustable nozzle
eight bundles of soft rush
plastic ruler, 6 inch

With the help of the net (and other assorted fishing gear now in the party's possession), Martin is able to capture four large fish in the river area just east of the spring, where the water has had some time to cool. They share a resemblance to rainbow trout, but with green stripes along their sides instead of red.

The sock is kind of small and dirty, but it could be washed off in the river and pulled over Zam's arm stump far enough to cover the worst of it. The dog food has a very faded picture of an excited cartoon dog slobbering over a photo of a meat chunk (enlarged for detail).

Day 009 -> Night 009
Starting Square: X.L.28
Ending Square: X.F.23
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Request:

four guava fruit
a lead rope, synthetic, with metal clip on one end
two handfuls of stinging nettles
small section of leather harness

The party's attempt at fishing tonight is successful! Although it's kind of a mixed blessing - the creature they catch is a five-foot long catfish-like creature capable of gulping air, which flails around pretty aggressively when dragged out of the river and has a nasty bite. One of the party ends up with a minor injury as a result of trying to dispatch the fish.

Morning 010 -> Night 010
Starting Square: X.F.23
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

degraded plastic container - small rectangle, no lid
a 200 rupiah coin
two crawfish
a moderately-sized sand dollar
small plastic cup
four handfuls of seaweed

The group does manage to make it back to base camp before nightfall, just about.

Morning 009 -> Night 010
Starting Square: X.F.23
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 48 hours
General Search Results:

a green gourd rind of some variety
bottlecap
a two-pound bag of beet pulp pellets
one very large egg in a nest on the ground
a metal nut for a screw
four metal washers
three sweet flags
a AA battery
bundle of tangled wires

K finds two medium-sized fish trapped behind the fishing weir, resembling sunfish.

Day 010 -> Night 010
Starting Square: X.L.28
Ending Square: IX.T.9
Duration: 16 hours
General Search Results:

a small river fish - some flavor of minnow
a small freshwater crab - species indeterminant
two handfuls of watercress
a one-inch, narrow fang, solid

Levi is able to find a few creative solutions to cross the Enemy Rivers while the three people he tails wade across them: He can salvage a few logs from the makeshift camp in square X.F.23 to try and steady his footing while he fords a muddier part of the first river, and he's able to jump/crawl across some stones in the river after that. The third one in tile IX presents more of a challenge, but thankfully some entrepreneurial soul built a fishing weir in square IX.EE.10 that he can use to hop across.

Levi tails the group to their base camp in square IX.T.9, a.k.a. the abandoned airstrip, although whether or not they also spot him following is up to them.

Morning 009 -> Night 009
Starting Square: IX.X.11
Ending Square: IX.X.11
Duration: 24 hours
General Search Results:

a handful of holly berries
canned luncheon meat
plastic bottle - degraded
medium-sized metal stockpot
a large blue crab
wooden stirring spoon
spoiled dead fish
eight aloe leaves
a half-gallon bottle of ammonia-based toilet cleaner
tangled fishing line
plastic smoothie straw
eight nails

The restaurant is much more accessible and stable than the hotel. The hotel itself is also reasonably stable on the first floor, as long as Senku is careful about where he steps, since some holes in the ground suggest that there's a basement that he could fall into if he's careless.

Morning 010
Starting Square: IX.W.12
Ending Square: X.D.16
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

dead jellyfish
can of soup - cream of mushroom

Moss does find signs of human habitation during the morning part of her travel - a fishing weir in square IX.EE.11 (although Senku probably told her who was responsible for this already) and a large S.O.S. written in the sand in square IX.FF.15. The fishing weir provides a convenient place to cross the first river along her travels, but the second one in tile X is too large and deep-looking to casually swim.

At the start of Day 010, however, visibility increases enough for Moss to catch sight of a small campsite in square X.E.12.

The villagers that pass in and out of the building seem just as content to leave Dirk alone. He's only directly addressed twice: Once around sunset to be given a cup of fresh water and a plate of roasted vegetables (some familiar and some not), then once a couple hours later to gather his dirty dishes and escort him to the communal bathroom glade behind the village. Fifteen minutes later and they're ushering him back to the same building for an overnight stay.

Interestingly, most of the cots remain empty in this barracks-like hut during the night, and it seems like the people that come in and out rotate every few hours, freely swapping weapons and napping in each other's bunks with impunity. There is never a point where there aren't two villagers stationed by the front door, and as the night drags on, Dirk might catch them stealing looks over their shoulders to stare at him at the far end of the room.

IC DATES: Morning 009
STARTING SQUARE: XI.V.14
ENDING SQUARE: ???
DETAILS: Dirk stays put for the rest of the previous night and keeps to himself in the corner as long as the villagers don't approach him directly. He pretends to sleep for a while just to see if they'll try anything once they think he's unconscious, but assuming all was quiet he eventually gets a little bit of sleep and waits for whatever they have planned for the morning.

There isn't anything to be found inside the waist pack except a handful of sand.

Day 008
Starting Square: III.BB.27
Ending Square: III.P.25
Duration: 6 hours
General Search Results:

plastic smoothie straw
dead fish, spoiled
ruined N95 mask
beer bottle, empty

Lalo actually comes within visual range of two landmarks - the derelict cockpit of a crashed airplane in square III.W.21, nose buried deep in the sand by the surf, and a campsite in square III.R.26, although it doesn't look like anyone's made use of it in at least several days. A few scattered birds perch and squawk at each other on top of the cockpit, but otherwise both sites are eerily silent.

Lalo has 2 hours remaining before Night 008.

IC DATES: Day 11 (night)
STARTING SQUARE: Wherever she is when AN000N starts talking to her
ENDING SQUARE: VII.K.6
DETAILS: During/after this conversation, she'll backtrack up the ridge (if she doesn't get to VII.K.6 before darkness starts to fall, then she'll stop early rather than traveling onwards in the dark).

Morning 009
Starting Square: VI.H.29
Ending Square: X.H.1
Duration: 8 hours
General Search Results:

small packet of ketchup
small bottle of liquid medical disinfectant

Squalo does find some fish in the river, and without too much difficulty is able to capture four medium-sized bass-type fish while he travels. The river is easily crossable at any point along this leg of his travels.

K will collect everything because you really never know what might be useful or needed for future Science Stuff™. He also took the minor injury mentioned there for the sake of keeping people fed. What a catch!

Once everyone's settled back at base camp, he'll have a nice catfish dinner before going to bed, intermittently checking on the others in camp throughout the night like usual.

IC DATES: Day 011 (morning)
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: IX.T.9 -> IX.EE.11 -> IX.T.9

Come morning, K will make a final clay run to collect the last of what Senku says is needed for the oven. He'll also check the fishing weir while he's there.

Taking everything but the nettles, and poor K is taking the fish bite.

Excellent!

Does the container have any holes in it? If it still holds water she'll take it even if it's ugly lol.

Is there a date on the coin?

Taking everything else.

Randvi will make sure Zam has a place to sleep, say hi to Senku, then sleep for the rest of the night.

IC DATES: Day 11 morning -> Day
STARTING SQUARE: IX.T.9
ENDING SQUARE: IX.T.9
DETAILS: I’ll give her an hour in the morning to talk to people because Levi might be causing problems and need a little good-natured threatening.

Their little village has guests, and will soon have way more guests, so time sharing the sofa in her room probably isn't going to cut it anymore.

First thing in the morning Randvi will go to the river near the fishing weir to set her snares again.

Then she'll head back to the airfield and clean out that office in the second hangar that she found a few days ago. That space is pretty small though so she’ll also clear out some floor space in the hangar she sleeps in - if there's any more tarps or canvas or even bags she will want those.

She can't get hay here and that's what would normally be on the floor for guests, so I think the next best thing is probably beach grasses if there are any? If there are she’ll spend some time collecting them and either spread them on the floor or make some makeshift bedding with them if she has the cloth. (probably another Viking culture shock moment coming up but it still beats sleeping on the ground lol)

I imagine this is going to take most of the day so there will be a break near the end of the day to go check the snares.

Dirk is left alone through the night, but is woken up with a few rough stamps of a spear's butt against the floor next to his bed at first light. The routine starts similar to dinner the previous day: A small breakfast of water and a few fried eggs, followed about an hour later by an escort to the woods. Instead of going directly back to the village, though, Dirk is walked about thirty minutes southwest to square XI.T.15, deeper into the mangrove forest, where he's allowed to wash up on the banks of a large, shallow river among the roots. By the time he and his guard turn back towards the village, it's about four hours into Morning 009.

Day 011
Starting Square: VII.K.8
Ending Square: VII.K.6
Duration: 6 hours
General Search Results:

empty dry food canister, 16 oz
three mangoes
bone d6, with numbers painted in dark red ink

I presume Shaw isn't moving as carefully since she was apparently spotted by mysterious AN000N, which gives her a little wiggle room to make it back to VII.K.6 before nightfall.

Back on top of the ridge, Shaw will see signs that someone else was here recently - snapped twigs, large, half-formed footprints, compressed grass. It all looks a bit deliberate, though, like whoever left these behind wants her to notice.

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